Wednesday, December 5, 2012

12 November 2012

It doesn't seem real that my mission is coming to an end but you allremember elder Zulauf who I trained, well he is in my district now andhe completed a year!!! I remember him when he was brand new and now heis an oldy. I realize I am old here with the way to teach and the loveI have for this work.

The people we teach here call me smiley becauseI am never caught with a bad attitude or a frown, I always say how cananyone be sad in this world when we have the one and only true gospeland we LIVE IT!!!! It is a huge testimony grower and now I love justtelling everyone. I honestly think we talk to about 30 to 40 people aday now. We just pass people on the street and i tell them that Godwants them to be a member in his church then i share my testimony withall the love and excitement I can and you know how many investigatorswe have right now? We have 46 people that we are teaching right nowand now you realize why I love having bikes haha.

It is incredible andthe best part is that we are gonna have a wedding of 2 investigatorson the 5th of December. I am so excited and we have 3 baptisms forthis Saturday and more and more to come. Yesterday we had 11 go tochurch WHICH IS GOOD!!! 6 of them said they want to get baptized. Theyeven came from outside of our area because they loved our excitementwhen we talked in the street. One girl rode her scooter to church30minutes in the rain to get to church alone. She is 21 and is willingto get baptized after one or 2 more church attendances. It isincredible.

So there is a family that has been listening to elders for4years and never went to church, never accepted a baptism date, neverstopped smoking but out of this family. We found them my first dayhere and they all have gone to church over 3 times and the Mom gotbaptized the daughter and the husband who looks like the wrestlerGoldberg QUIT SMOKING AND IS GETTING BAPTIZED SATURDAY!!!! It isincredible!!! This family now has a goal to go to the temple andeverything. They are so wonderful and I will miss them so bad!!!(thatanswers your question Dad that yes, I will miss a lot of people herebut thank goodness facebook exists)

Also this marriage well these 2have been talking to elders for 2 years once again never went tochurch never progressed but they have assisted 6 times their daughterhas been baptized and now they will be getting MARRIED!!! This man heis 23 years old and he was addicted to drugs, alcohol you name it andyeah he liked it haha. He has changed a full 300% and is justincredible now. He loves the church and is now sharing the gospel withhis entire family. He goes an hour early to church ON SUNDAYMORNINGS!!! Here in Argentina waking up at 7am is a miracle haha andhe gets to church by 8am. Whoever says that this gospel isn't true ordoesn't have the power to change lives or bring happiness well that isIMPOSSIBLE!!! What is funny is i can go on for days telling you thesestories of people leaving behind everything.

We have an investigatorhe works in a night club as a DJ(he is so cool) but he still comes tochurch even though he works Saturday night to 7am Sunday morning hegets to church at 9:15 or 9:30am. It is truly incredible to see thatthis ward is changing so much the members are really active they areworking hard in their callings and they cook us some good lunches.haha. But other than these there are only so many more miracles thathappened this last week. I paid a very very generous fast offeringand everything got better. I have obtained a testimony in everysingle topic or point in this Gospel and the power of the atonement isthe best of all. To bring just streams of tears to know that hesuffered so much for me. It is incredible and just cant wait likeseriously CANT WAIT!!!! To see all of you so soon and to be able totell you everything and to see how my life has changed and how I havechanged. I heard that you never know how much you changed until youget home so I am just as excited as you to see what has happened to mehere.

I just love this church and Now is the time to change likeit says in the book of Mormon."today is the day of our salvation!!!"Everyday we either serve God or the devil. Choose ye this day for whomye shall serve!!! The bible haha I just love it because now i evenhave scripture knowledge haha. I love you all so much and will besending some good pics. Of Goldberg when he gets baptized Saturdayhaha Love Elder Darby the second